The Living and the Dead

A beautifully written, haunting murder mystery, set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . . ______________________________________<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD FOR BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL <BR>WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD <BR>WINNER OF DENMARK'S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL <BR><BR>'All the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare' <BR>FREDRIK BACKMAN<BR><BR>'Resembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime... Stylistically classy and psychologically rich'<BR>THE TIMES<BR><BR>'An epic, ambitious literary crime novel' <BR>FINANCIAL TIMES <BR>'Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations'<BR>NEW YORK TIMES<BR><BR>___________________<BR><BR>On a cold, snowy winter's night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together, in a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, they imagine they will remain so forever.<BR><BR>The next morning, each is a key suspect in a murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.<BR><BR>The hunt for Mikael Söderström's killer will take over twenty years. It will see a detective leave the force forever. And it won't end until a second body is found, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light . . .<BR>___________________<BR><BR>'His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusion'<BR>WALL STREET JOURNAL<BR><BR>'Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western'<BR>ANTHONY MARRA<BR><BR>'Magnificent, epic, immediate'<BR>A. J. FINN <BR><BR>'A psychologically rich study of guilt and memory'<BR>I PAPER<BR>